Re: gnuplot.exe hangs instead of exiting on Windows 7

[Juhász P. <pet...@gm...>]

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 12:50 -0700, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> "Bastian Märkisch" <bma...@we...> wrote>
> 
> > Now that Tatsuro has provided a built of the CVS state as of March 17th,
> > could somebody please confirm that the problems go away with
> > that version? As I can't reproduce anything here, it's like fishing in 
> > murky waters...
> 
> The executable in gp45-winbin.zip downloaded from 
>    http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/gnuplot/Eng/winbin/
> on 24 March  still contains the codepage-switching and still
> hangs after the first carriage return on input.
> 
> So I don't think the executable that I found is the one from 17 March
> that Tatsuro refers to.
> 
> It would be helpful if the windows build script would do something
> equivalent to 
>    head -1 ChangeLog | sed 's/ .*$//' > PATCHLEVEL
> 
> So that the date of the most recent entry in ChangeLog appears
> in "show version".   I have that in my build script for linux,
> but I don't know if that command works on windows.
> 
> 	Ethan

I think the build script should write the date of the last Changelog
entry right into gnuplot_date[] in version.c, regardless of the
platform. (It still says "September 2010", by the way...)

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